Comment & Opinion

On Jan. 21, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a district that puts its own kindergartners on a yellow bus may hand a charter school kindergart...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Whatever the demographers say, I believe the line between millennials and Gen Z is whether or not you have a working memory of Sept...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the largest attack on America. Today’s college seniors weren’t even alive when the attack happened. They’re famili...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, yet lawmakers in just half of states require teaching about the terro...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Pete Hegseth would have loved commanding a military force during the Crusades, leading an all-white, all-male army imbued with Chri...

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists linked to the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda, founded by Osama bin Laden, hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes...

LONDON (TNS) — As we approach the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, it is important to reflect on the historic significance of that atrocity and on the le...

BOSTON (TNS) — The sudden departure of Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, following months of tension with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, is a se...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The attacks on Hugging Face ran from May to late July, yet the details of what actually happened when OpenAI’s artificial-intelligenc...

A U.S. Air Force major stands on the Capitol steps in his service uniform, ribbons and all, calling for the president and vice president to be impeach...

I cringed when I read about my deceased husband, Dr. Widad Bazzoui’s memoir, "The Man From Baghdad," in a letter to the editor in the Sept. 3 edition ...

Contractors working for the state of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers’ dime. A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to...

To determine a political party’s priorities, see what makes it upset. The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is one of the biggest ong...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Americans like to spend money, and they’re good at it. But they also feel kind of bad about it. According to a survey from Ally Bank,...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In 1982, C. Everett Koop became surgeon general of the United States. His unusual appearance — bright bowties and a mustache-less f...

The Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service charged taxpayers and other federal agencies $50 million in 2013 for electronic co...

The national debt isn’t just a big number. It’s a major anchor on economic growth. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that government bond y...

DEAR RUSTY: Maybe everybody has the same reaction that I do to Social Security insolvency. I do not understand a system that has been basically run li...

There is considerable interest in — and concern about — what will happen as artificial intelligence consumes more of its own output. AI produces somet...

Lackawanna County taxpayers recently received a painful surprise in the form of a 33% property tax increase. This massive tax hike was apparently put ...